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[Printed by authority of the State of Illinois.] 

REGULATIONS ADOPTED BY THE 

STATE BOARD OF LIVE STOCK 

COMMISSIONERS 



To Govern the Removal of Bulls, Cows or 

Heifers From Public Stock Yards For 

Feeding Purposes Only. 



Tuberculin Testing at Public Stock Yards : 
Owing to the constantly increasing demand 
for the tuberculin test for breeding and dairy 
cows at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, and 
the National Stock Yards, East St. Louis, 
arrangements have been effected whereby cat- 
tle can be subjected to the test several days 
each week, at a cost of $1.00 per head, for all 
cattle in small lots ; in carload lots, up to 
twenty-five head, $10.00 per car; all uv-er 
twenty-five cattle in the same lot, will be tested 
at 50c per head. 

Ample facilities for conducting the test have 
been provided by the stock yard companies. 

Veterinarians' Fees : 

Veterinarians authorized to administer the 
tuberculin test throughout the State should in 
no instance charge more than $16.00 for testing 
up to twenty-five head of cattle, in one lot 
together with actual incidental expenses where 
circumstances warrant. Where more than 
twenty -five cattle are subjected to the test in 
one lot, a charge of 50c per head for each 
additional animal may be made. 

Quarantined Cattle : 

All bulls, cows, or heifers removed from pub- 
lic stock yards under permits consigning them 
in quarantine for feeding purposes only must be 
kept separate from all other cattle, except steers. 
All bulls, cows, or heifers added to the quaran- 
tined lot shall become a part of said lot. 

Tuberculin Test : 

Quarantined cattle may be subjected to the 
tuberculin test in any part of the State by a duly 
authorized veterinarian. 



Every animal passing a satisfactory test, will 
be released from quarantine and may then be 
disposed of for breeding or dairy purposes with- 
out restrictions of any kind. 

Reactors : 

All cattle reacting to the tuberculin test must 
be permanently marked for identification by 
being branded with a hot iron with the letter "T". 

All reactors shall remain in quarantine until 
released therefrom for slaughter, under State or 
Federal inspection. 

Re, Slaughtering : 

Cattle may be removed from quarantined 
premises and sold in small lots for slaughter to 
local butchers, or, they may be sold to shippers 
for shipment to public stock yards. 

When such sales or shipments are made, how- 
ever, notice of the transaction must be forwarded 
to the State venterinarian, in the form of an 
affidavit, made before a notary public. 

Bulls may be removed from public stock yards 
in quarantine. If castrated and notices to that 
effect rendered to the State veterinarian, the 
quarantine will be raised so that the steers may 
be handled without restrictions of any kind. 

Applications for Test : 

All applications for the tuberculin test, must be 
filed with the State veterinarian and all tuber- 
culin tests must be administered by authorized 
veterinarians with B. A. I. tuberculin, which will 
be supplied in all cases. 

O. E. Dyson, State Veterinarian. 



An Act to amend an Act entitled, "An Act to 
revise the law in relation to the suppression and 
prevention of the spread of contagious and in- 
fectious diseases among domestic animals' 3 
approved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the People of the 
State of Illinois, represented in the General 
Assembly: That an Act entitled, "An Act to 
revise the law in relation to the suppression and 
prevention of the spread of contagious and in- 
fectious diseases among domestic animals," ap- 
proved June 14, 1909, in force July 1, 1909, be 
amended by adding to said Act fifteen sections to 
be known as sections 13, 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d, 13e, 
Idi, 13g, 14, 15, 16 17, 1| m and 20. 



§ 13. All bulls, cows or heifers exceeding the 
age of nine months brought into the State of Illi- 
nois by any person, persons, firm, company or 
corporation, or by any railroad or other transpor- 
tation company, (unless said bulls, cows or heif- 
ers are consigned to and delivered by the trans- 
portation company within the confines of the 
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, the National Stock 
Yards, East St. Louis, or the Union Stock Yards, 
Peoria), or any other like public stock yard, shall 
be accompanied by a certificate of health, includ- 
ing the tuberculin test, administered in accord- 
ance with the regulations of the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry within thirty days 
previous to said cattle being brought into the 
State of Illinois. 

§ 13a. The foregoing provisions, however, 
shall not apply to the importation of bulls, cows 
or heifers from herds which are officially regis- 
tered by the Live Stock Sanitary authorities of 
the state of origin as being free from tuberculosis 
and other contagious and infectious diseases. 
Reciprocal exchange of cattle from " State Ac- 
credited Herds" shall be permitted under regula- 
tions prescribed by the State Board of Live Stock 
Commissioners. 

§ 13b. All certificates of health shall be issued 
in duplicate form by veterinarians in good stand- 
ing and shall be approved by the State Veteri- 
narian or official in charge of live stock sanitary 
control in the state in which the shipment has 
its origin, or by an inspector of the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry. Before accepting 
consignments of bulls, cows, or heifers for im- 
portation into the State of Illinois, transportation 
companies shall require that the original of said 
certificate of health be delivered to them to be 
attached to the way bill and accompanying the 
shipment to its destination. When such bulls, 
cows, or heifers are driven into the State of Illi- 
nois said certificate of health must be carried by 
the person in charge of said cattle. A duplicate of 
each certificate of health under which bulls, cows 
or heifers are brought into the State of Illinois, 
for breeding or dairy purposes as in this Act re- 
quired, shall be mailed to the State Veterinarian, 
Springfield, Illinois, on or before the date of 
bringing such cattle into the State. Furthermore, 
the agent of any transportation company deliver- 
ing cattle covered by a certificate of health within 
the State of Illinois shall immediately detach 
from said way bill said certificate of health and 



immediately forward same to the State Veteri- 
narian, Springfield, Illinois ; and such transpor- 
tation company may, with each shipment, require 
an extra duplicate to be filed with such transpor- 
tation company for record. 

§ 13c. Bulls, cows or heifers for feeding or 
grazing only, may be shipped or driven into the 
State of Illinois, or removed from public stock 
yards within the State upon a permit issued by 
the State Board of Live Stock Commissioners, 
provided that all such cattle shall be placed in 
quarantine upon the premises of the owner until 
released therefrom, or until they have passed a 
negative tuberculin test, administered in accord- 
ance with the regulations of the United States 
Bureau of Animal Industry at the expense of the 
owner. No shipment of bulls, cows or heifers 
exceeding the age of nine months, unless con- 
signed to and delivered by the transportation 
company within the confines of the Union Stock 
Yards, Chicago, the National Stock Yards, East 
St. Louis, or the Union Stock Yards, Peoria, or 
any other like public stock yards, shall be ac- 
cepted for shipment or delivery into the State of 
Illinois by any person or persons, firm, corp- 
oration, or transportation company (unless said 
cattle are covered by a permit duly executed by 
the owner or his agent, consigning said cattle in 
quarantine for feeding or grazing only). Trans- 
portation companies before accepting such ship- 
ments shall require all permits to be executed in 
duplicate form by the owner or his agent. One 
copy shall be attached to the way bill and the 
agent of the transportation company accepting 
such shipments shall immediately forward copy 
of said permit to the State Veterinarian, Spring- 
field, Illinois. 

§ 13d. All importation of steers or spayed heif- 
ers, including bull and heifer calves under nine 
months of age, (unless consigned to and de- 
livered by the transportation company within the 
confines of the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, the 
National Stock Yards, East St. Louis, or the 
Union Stock Yards, Peoria, or any other like 
public stock yards, shall be covered by an affidavit 
specifying their classification as such. In the 
event of the consignor being a non-resident of the 
State of Illinois, the consignee, owner or any 
person or persons to whom said cattle are de- 
livered, shall be required by said transportation 
company to execute said affidavit before said 
calves, steers or spayed heifers are released by 



the agent of said transportation company. Copy 
of said affidavit shall be immediately forwarded 
to the State Veterinarian, Springfield, Illinois, by 
the agent of the transportation company making 
such delivery. 

§ 13e. Bulls, cows, and heifers accepted by 
transportation companies for delivery into the 
State of Illinois, if unloaded en route for feed or 
water shall be confined in pens under lock and 
key by the transportation company accepting said 
shipment for delivery. 

§ 13f. The obligations assumed by the trans- 
portation company at the original point of ship- 
ment shall extend to all connecting lines. No 
additions to the original consignment or substitu- 
tions en route shall be permitted by any trans- 
portation company. 

§ 13g. When any bulls, cows or heifers herein 
specified are consigned for delivery within the 
confines of the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, the 
National Stock Yards, East St. Louis, or the 
Union Stock Yards, Peoria, or other like public 
stock yards, they shall not be diverted en route 
or delivered to the owner or consignee at any 
other point within the State of Illinois, except 
that named in the original billing. 

§ 14. Any bulls, cows or heifers imported into 
the State of Illinois in violation of the foreging 
provisions of this Act shall be placed in quaran- 
tine by the State Board of Live Stock Commis- 
sioners, and so held until they have been sub- 
jected to and successfully pass a negative tuber- 
culin test administered under the direction of the 
State Board of Live Stock Commissioners at the 
expense of the owner, shipper or consignee, 
which expense shall constitute a lien upon said 
cattle until said expense has been paid. Any such 
cattle as may react to said tuberculin test shall be 
slaughtered under the direction of the State 
Board of Live Stock Commissioners and the 
owner shall receive only the proceeds resulting 
from said slaughter after deducting necessary ex- 
penses in connection therewith. 

§ 15. It shall be unlawful to sell, ofTer for sale, 
or to purchase any bulls, cows or heifers known 
to have reacted to the tuberculin test, except un- 
der regulations prescribed by the State Board of 
Live Stock Commissioners, to-wit : Bulls, cows 
and heifers which have reacted to the tuberculin 
test, provided they show no physical evidence of 
disease, may be sold and delivered within the 
State, provided the purchaser shall first secure a 



pefmit from the State Board of Live Stock Com- 
missioners, wherein it is agreed that such react- 
ing cattle shall be kept separate and apart from 
all non-reacting cattle, and shall be maintained 
under strict quarantine until released therefrom 
for sale or slaughter under State or Federal in- 
spection by permit issued by the State Board of 
Live Stock Commissioners. 

§ 16. The State Board of Live Stock Commis- 
sioners is hereby charged with the enforcement 
of the provisions of this Act. 

§ 17. No bulls, cows or heifers, now forming 
a part of the domestic herds of this State or here- 
after born and raised in this State, shall be sub- 
jected to the tuberculin test by the State Veteri- 
narian or his assistants, without the consent of 
the owner thereof. 

§ 18. Any railroad company, stock yards com- 
pany, corporation, person or persons violating 
any provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty 
of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine not ex- 
ceeding one thousand (1,000) dollars. 

§ 19. In all cases where the transportation 
company is obliged under the provisions of this 
law to withhold or refuse delivery of cattle, the 
duty to feed and care for such cattle shall be 
upon the owner or consignor, or in case of his 
default in so doing then by the transportation 
company at the expense of the owner or con- 
signor, and such transportation company shall in 
such case have a lien upon such animals for food, 
care or custody furnished, and such transporta- 
tion company shall not be liable for any detention 
to such cattle to enable compliance with the 
provisions of this Act. 

§ 20. For the purposes of this Act stock yards 
at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago, the National 
Stock Yards, East St. Louis, or the Union Stock 
Yards, Peoria, or any other like public stock 
yards, shall be placed in quarantine. 



Schnepp & Barnes, State Printers 

Springfield, III. 

1915 



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